UH’s Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship Maintains No. 1 Ranking in U.S. for Fifth Consecutive Year
For a fifth consecutive year, the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship in the C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston has been named the No. 1 undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the United States. The Wolff Center has garnered the top spot in the annual list compiled by The Princeton Review and published in Entrepreneur magazine a total of eight times, and it has ranked in the Top 10 each year since 2007.
“We are gratified to receive another No.1 ranking, especially as we are poised to reach more potential entrepreneurs through the establishment of the Wayne B. Duddlesten Free Enterprise Institute,” said Dean and Cullen Distinguished Chair Professor Paul A. Pavlou.
“We believe in entrepreneurship, we believe in free enterprise, and we’re in the number one city for entrepreneurship.”
– Wolff Center Executive Director Dave Cook
Wolff Center students Alim Maknojia, Argentina Guerra and Omar Kanaan
“The Wolff Center’s reign as an entrepreneurship dynasty has in large part been enabled by the generosity of our community,” Pavlou said. “In addition to the Wolff family and the many business leaders who contribute their valuable time to mentor our students, a recent $5 million gift from the Wayne Duddlesten Foundation will further enrich and expand this formidable program.”
Since its establishment at Bauer College in 1991, the Wolff Center has educated an elite group of undergraduate business students who create businesses through a small cohort program.
“We believe in entrepreneurship, we believe in free enterprise, and we’re in the number one city for entrepreneurship,” said Wolff Center executive director Dave Cook. “When we put students into this entrepreneurial mix, and we introduce and reinforce free enterprise values, our intent is to change students’ lives and to create the next generation of business leaders with the highest integrity who are going to go out and create their own cultures, their own companies and their own futures.”